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Someone tell me if this sounds crazy...
3rd yr trying this beek thing, watched my most productive hive thus far this year swarm today (despite my best efforts at swarm prevention) and settle in the neighbor's tree. Gave them a couple hrs to settle down then easily put them in a new box and they seemed to have settled right in , taking syrup, etc. I was wondering, could I give them a couple of weeks in their new hive, then use the newspaper method of combining them back with their original hive, as long as I got rid of one queen? My reason for wanting to do this is because that hive was really making a good amt of honey, and I've read plenty of times that one large hive will make much more honey than that same hive split into 2.
Thanks for any advice
3rd yr trying this beek thing, watched my most productive hive thus far this year swarm today (despite my best efforts at swarm prevention) and settle in the neighbor's tree. Gave them a couple hrs to settle down then easily put them in a new box and they seemed to have settled right in , taking syrup, etc. I was wondering, could I give them a couple of weeks in their new hive, then use the newspaper method of combining them back with their original hive, as long as I got rid of one queen? My reason for wanting to do this is because that hive was really making a good amt of honey, and I've read plenty of times that one large hive will make much more honey than that same hive split into 2.
Thanks for any advice